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Have restaurants like Taco Bell gotten crazy expensive for what you get or am I crazy? (lemmy.world)
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Crunchwrap used $4-5, it's almost $9 now... For what?

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Its more expensive, tastes worse, is prepared worse, and uses worse ingredients. The fuck is happening?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fuck is happening?

I'm cooking more at home! That's what's happening.

[–] pcr3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Same! Cooking at home tastes better, healthier and usually much cheaper. The only catch is it takes time...

But I was in a hurry and didn't pack a lunch, that's why I was shocked at how high the prices were at Taco Bell.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Taco Bell has always been slop You just had the iron stomach of youth . 25 years ago that shit Inedible to me I would eat it and Just feel like shit.

But I will concede this that restaurants as a whole have gotten shittier in the last five years. It’s not just Taco Bell

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I disagree. There was definitely a cutoff point. Somewhere around 2008, where Taco Bell's meat became vastly worse.

Those were in my poverty days, so I ate Taco Bell quite a bit and it was like one day everything was what I expected and the next day everything was gritty and greasy and unsatisfying.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone goes through that with all fast food.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was slop, but it was cheap slop.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah used to be able to drop 5$ there and get FULL. Not anymore. Last time I went I grabbed food for 3 people and it was like 30$ and for my part of it I was trying to be cheap as possible.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Quarter after quarter of expected growth in an industry that only works with cheap prices.